Wildfitness is a fitness holiday company with the aspiration to help people eat, move and live in harmony with nature. Find practical tips in our Wild Eating, Wild Moving & Wild Living sections, or go to our Wonderations category for more philosophical musings on nature, the wild, our health, the role of science, the meaning of life etc! Enjoy and please let us know what you think.

Running from the Heart - a weekend with Chris McDougall

Chris McDougall wrote our favourite book – best-selling ‘Born to Run’.  People everywhere are reading it, and it’s making people RUN.  And not just run, but run with JOY.
Wildfitness has been into barefoot running from the beginning, but even my own dear mother after years of me talking about it, has only just taken off [...]

Inspiring Books

As natural approaches to fitness and evolutionary science gain momentum in the mainstream consciousness, a feast of wonderful new books abound. Being an avid reader (this is Tara writing), and someone who can be deeply inspired by the written word, it is a pleasure to present some reviews of books that have influenced the Wildfitness [...]

Movement is it's own medicine

“Everything you knew about muscle is wrong” is a fantastic article by Christopher McDougall in the October 09 issue of Men’s Health. It is lengthy and detailed but it explains clearly how your muscle fascia is responsible for much of the power (and sometimes pain) in your movement. Just reading the article will make you [...]